Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-07-07

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varieties the preference. Situation as
well as soil adaptation should be con-
sidered.
Whenever it is noticed that the hogs
eat gravel it is sign that something
they need is lacking. A few pieces of
coal, or charcoal, will probably be u
cure, while the food at the same time
should be varied.
j. II. Hale, of Connecticut, claims
that where peach trees are fortified
with muriate of potash the fruit is of a
much deeper color, and has been sold
for dollar basket more than from
trees not treated.
Some of the tobacco raised in En-
gland last season sold for half-penny
per pound, and some could not be dis
posed of to manufacturers at any
price. 1t win probably be used for
killing vermin ON sheep and fowls or
for fumigating greenhouses.
A new theory regarding milk fever
| is that it is caused by removing too
much of the warm milk from the
udder Immediately after calying, thus
causing chill. 1t is suggested never
to allow the calf to suck over one
fourth of the milk until after the
fourth day.
! An Indiana farmer states the owner
of quarter-section of prairie land
should be able to raise and sell ten fat
steers and forty hogs each year, be-
sides raising food enough to supply
his family. If his stock is good his
cash sales will amount to about ST.
500 per year.
Charred wood from the stove, or
charcoal in any shape, is excellent for
hogs. 1t is best to keep charcoal in
the pens where the hogs can always
have free access to it. Rotten wood
is also relished by hogs, and they are
very fond of burnt bread or other
charred substances.
Flour spoils very easily. During the
months from October to April but
little change takes place in good flour,
but from spring to August fermenta-
ton is carried on, which gives rise to
an offensive odor, and which, once
started, progresses throughout the
winter following.
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stream of running water on his place
should neglect to raise water cress. A
bed once started will continue 10
furnish leaves during a lifetime. As a
relish for meat and fish it has no SUI
| perior. 1t is also desirable as an orna-
ment for the table. 1t can be propa
gated by seed or by division of old
| plants.
One hundred pounds of buttermilk
| has as much nutritive value as twenty
pounds of corn, and IS better adapted
| to.young pigs. If three-quarters of a
| pound of boiled ilaxseed or one pound
of old-style linseed-oil meal be added
to the above quantity of buttermilk,
the latter will be almost as nutritious
as new milk.
Farmers in Louisiana will in the
| future give more attention to raising
mules. For century mules for doing
farm work have been obtained from
| Kentucky and other states, and have
called for the expenditure of large
sums. Farmers have lately found out
that mules can be raised at home for
much less than they can be bought.
The question as to whether ensilage
| can be used as q winter ration for
feeding hogs is answered in the affirm
alive by Mr.. Urquehart, of Rio, Wis,
! who claims to have kept a lot of shoats
during the past winter on ensilage ex-
clusively, feeding no grain, and says
that they have not only done ex-
ceedingly well, but have made good
growth.
| The fruit iellies of commerce are
| fittingly called horticultural oleomar-
| garine by Orchard and Garden, be-
cause they are such compound of
authorizations. For instance, alleged
"currant jelly" is composed of water
glucose, tartaric acid, gelatine, aniline
| red, and dried cores and skins of
| apples, the refuse of evaporating es-
| adjustments, often sour and decayed
before drying.
! The statement is made in a New
York city paper that one railroad
carried twenty-five thousand country
boarders to farm-houses in three coun-
| ties in the state, where they staid on
an average eight weeks each, and left
in the hands of farmers 81, 100000. If
the statement is true summer boarders
appear to be the best-paying crop a
| farmer can raise.
Prof. Beal, of Michigan, thinks
practical entomologists should interest
themselves in finding out how humble
bees can be increased, to the end that
they may fertilize red clover blossoms.
He states that these useful insects are
more common in the northern than in
the southern states, and that the clover
seed crop is much larger in the former
on that account.
A California paper says: The plant
ing of Egyptian corn is becoming
quite an industry, and is being made
very profitable by those who have
undertaken it and secured good land
for that purpose. On the Marcuse
ranch, in Suffer county, one thousand
acres are being put in, and men have
j. commenced planting the seeds.
ID. j. Kcrtchem is interested in the
crop. and is overseeing the work.